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Hacker News (Dec 2019)

  1. The Ultimate Acorn Archimedes talk [video]

    142 points • comment • dec 28, 2019

  2. PracticalAI 2.0: A New Platform to Learn ML Using Python, Keras and Tensorflow

    142 points • comment • dec 07, 2019

  3. The programmer behind the THERAC-25 Fiasco was never found

    141 points • comment • dec 02, 2019

  4. Luxury hotel guests keep stealing mattresses

    141 points • comment • dec 12, 2019

  5. The Art of Dying

    141 points • comment • dec 21, 2019

  6. Introduction to Bert

    141 points • comment • dec 02, 2019

  7. Getting a scientific prize for open-source software

    141 points • comment • dec 01, 2019

  8. Unicode Is Awesome

    141 points • comment • dec 02, 2019

  9. Physicists Have Identified a Metal That Conducts Electricity But Not Heat (2017)

    141 points • comment • dec 01, 2019

  10. Show HN: Clayoven – a minimalist website generator for math, code, and articles

    141 points • comment • dec 15, 2019

  11. Drugs that tamp down inflammation in the brain could slow cognitive decline

    141 points • comment • dec 07, 2019

  12. Modern garbage collection: Part 2

    141 points • comment • dec 12, 2019

  13. Natural Language Processing Best Practices and Examples

    141 points • comment • dec 05, 2019

  14. Progressive React

    141 points • comment • dec 20, 2019

  15. Principles of the American Cargo Cult (2003)

    141 points • comment • dec 29, 2019

  16. I don’t know if whoever flagged the typos in my eBook thought they were helping

    140 points • comment • dec 24, 2019

  17. Go Micro – A Go microservices development framework

    140 points • comment • dec 25, 2019

  18. Ruby Lazy Enumerators

    140 points • comment • dec 28, 2019

  19. CapOneMe – a vulnerable cloud environment to demonstrate the Capital One breach

    139 points • comment • dec 27, 2019

  20. Red Hat Cloud Forms migrating to IBM Cloud Pak

    139 points • comment • dec 18, 2019

  21. Cancer cells die in microgravity conditions – study

    139 points • comment • dec 05, 2019

  22. Local Privilege Escalation in OpenBSD's Dynamic Loader

    139 points • comment • dec 12, 2019

  23. How to write better game libraries

    139 points • comment • dec 08, 2019

  24. Freedom of expression is at a ten-year low globally, study says

    139 points • comment • dec 06, 2019

  25. French executives convicted in the suicides of 35 of their workers

    139 points • comment • dec 22, 2019

  26. Build Your Own WebAssembly Compiler

    138 points • comment • dec 27, 2019

  27. TikTok curbed reach for people with disabilities

    138 points • comment • dec 02, 2019

  28. What does your car know about you? We hacked a Chevy to find out

    138 points • comment • dec 17, 2019

  29. Epsilon: The JDK’s Do-Nothing Garbage Collector

    138 points • comment • dec 08, 2019

  30. California is about to allow former felons to serve on juries

    138 points • comment • dec 08, 2019

  31. A new cycle-stepped 6502 CPU emulator

    138 points • comment • dec 15, 2019

  32. Ask HN: Any Pebble Alternatives?

    138 points • comment • dec 29, 2019

  33. LibrePCB 0.1.3 released, now with DRC

    138 points • comment • dec 01, 2019

  34. Writing a Simple Garbage Collector in C

    138 points • comment • dec 15, 2019

  35. Bootstrapping Understanding: An Introduction to Reverse Engineering

    138 points • comment • dec 06, 2019

  36. How William Gibson Keeps His Science Fiction Real

    138 points • comment • dec 09, 2019

  37. Developers join call for GitHub to cancel its ICE contract

    137 points • comment • dec 04, 2019

  38. Show HN: Tiny, fast, and free API to geolocate IP addresses

    137 points • comment • dec 09, 2019

  39. Developing a Statically Typed Programming Language (2017)

    137 points • comment • dec 08, 2019

  40. From SaaS idea validation in 1 day to 150+ Beta signups

    137 points • comment • dec 10, 2019

  41. The World of Statecharts

    136 points • comment • dec 23, 2019

  42. Robots in Finance Could Wipe Out Some of Its Highest-Paying Jobs

    136 points • comment • dec 07, 2019

  43. Eris – A better way to handle, trace, and log errors in Go

    136 points • comment • dec 25, 2019

  44. New membrane unlocks energy from chemical difference between fresh and saltwater

    136 points • comment • dec 06, 2019

  45. German university issues 38k passwords by hand after malware infection

    136 points • comment • dec 18, 2019

  46. Firefox 71

    136 points • comment • dec 03, 2019

  47. 2020: Things You Should Read to Become a Better Human and Developer

    136 points • comment • dec 10, 2019

  48. Airplanes and Accounting Games: The Coming Boeing Collapse?

    136 points • comment • dec 19, 2019

  49. 4.2 Kiloyear Event

    136 points • comment • dec 16, 2019

  50. Publish – A static site generator for Swift developers

    136 points • comment • dec 30, 2019

  51. First mathematical proof for a key law of turbulence in fluid mechanics

    136 points • comment • dec 12, 2019

  52. In Memoriam of Charles “Chuck” Peddle

    135 points • comment • dec 20, 2019

  53. WoW streamer hires YouTubers who leeched off his stream to run official channel

    135 points • comment • dec 12, 2019

  54. Kramnik and AlphaZero: How to Rethink Chess‎

    135 points • comment • dec 14, 2019

  55. Teen Marijuana Vaping Soars, Displacing Other Habits

    135 points • comment • dec 18, 2019

  56. Facebook fail to convince lawmakers it needs to track your location at all times

    135 points • comment • dec 18, 2019

  57. Rust implementations of abstract algebraic structures

    135 points • comment • dec 07, 2019

  58. How to Buy a Private Jet

    135 points • comment • dec 09, 2019

  59. Amazon SageMaker Autopilot

    135 points • comment • dec 03, 2019

  60. Show HN: LastingPaper – A Desktop App for Your E-Ink Kindle

    135 points • comment • dec 13, 2019

  61. ISO week date

    135 points • comment • dec 26, 2019

  62. Soviet Santa

    134 points • comment • dec 25, 2019

  63. The Road to Valhalla

    134 points • comment • dec 06, 2019

  64. Here’s the story of a game I made in 1994, when I was 12

    134 points • comment • dec 26, 2019

  65. The Art of Bargaining, Positional vs. Interest-Based Negotiation

    134 points • comment • dec 11, 2019

  66. Kinematics of Reverse Angle Parking

    134 points • comment • dec 27, 2019

  67. Lawmakers Warn Against Private Equity Firm's .Org Takeover

    134 points • comment • dec 26, 2019

  68. Text QR

    134 points • comment • dec 11, 2019

  69. Maps Reveal the Hidden Structures of ‘Choose Your Own Adventure’ Books (2017)

    134 points • comment • dec 22, 2019

  70. Better Intuition for Information Theory

    133 points • comment • dec 02, 2019

  71. Serverless Development with Serverless Framework

    133 points • comment • dec 09, 2019

  72. The dark side of electronic waste recycling

    133 points • comment • dec 16, 2019

  73. Using Makefile(s) for Go

    133 points • comment • dec 08, 2019

  74. Open letter concerning Facebook's proposals to apply end-to-end encryption

    133 points • comment • dec 23, 2019

  75. Arm Shows Backside Power Delivery as Path to Further Moore’s Law

    132 points • comment • dec 20, 2019

  76. Explore Magic Cap, a Smartphone OS from a Decade Before the iPhone

    132 points • comment • dec 04, 2019

  77. Show HN: HNTerm – Browse Hacker News in the Terminal

    132 points • comment • dec 15, 2019

  78. Tesla's stock just hit a record $420

    132 points • comment • dec 23, 2019

  79. A Lonely Plea: ‘Anybody Need a Grandma for Christmas?’

    132 points • comment • dec 21, 2019

  80. Play AI Dungeon 2. Become a Dragon. Eat the Moon

    132 points • comment • dec 16, 2019

  81. A Billion Surveillance Cameras Forecast to Be Watching Within Two Years

    132 points • comment • dec 05, 2019

  82. Dgsh – Directed Graph Shell

    132 points • comment • dec 04, 2019

  83. Weasel: A Stealthy DNS Beacon

    132 points • comment • dec 04, 2019

  84. An introduction to machine learning through polynomial regression

    132 points • comment • dec 25, 2019

  85. An Illustrated First-Person Guide to the CIA’s Torture Program

    132 points • comment • dec 05, 2019

  86. Amazon Launches Managed Cassandra Service

    132 points • comment • dec 03, 2019

  87. The Cycle from ‘Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance’ Comes to Smithsonian

    132 points • comment • dec 21, 2019

  88. Boeing Starliner updates: Spacecraft flies into wrong orbit, jeopardizing test

    132 points • comment • dec 20, 2019

  89. Formatting Is Unreasonably Expensive for Embedded Rust

    132 points • comment • dec 09, 2019

  90. Normal 1: what normal maps are and how they work

    131 points • comment • dec 21, 2019

  91. Turkey's block on Wikipedia violates rights, court rules

    131 points • comment • dec 27, 2019

  92. Repo Blowup Was Fueled by Big Banks and Hedge Funds, BIS Says

    131 points • comment • dec 09, 2019

  93. On June 11th, the Strand was designated a landmark

    131 points • comment • dec 27, 2019

  94. The Joys of Unix Keyboards

    130 points • comment • dec 30, 2019

  95. Generalized Knights

    130 points • comment • dec 30, 2019

  96. Tree-sitter: new incremental parsing system for programming tools (2018) [video]

    130 points • comment • dec 01, 2019

  97. How does Apple get away with this UI?

    130 points • comment • dec 10, 2019

  98. The internet doesn't care about multiplayer games

    129 points • comment • dec 09, 2019

  99. Crispr-Resistant Viruses Build ‘Safe Rooms’ to Shield Genomes from Enzymes

    129 points • comment • dec 24, 2019

  100. Arduino programmable air, pneumatics kit

    129 points • comment • dec 29, 2019